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Archive for August, 2009
Inglourious Basterds Review
John CampeaNews Chat, ReviewsThanks for checking out my "Inglourious Basterds" review. You can see my full review in the video below, but here are the bullet points: 1) Great bad guy 2) Terrific performance by Christoph Waltz (...
Shutter Island Gets Moved To 2010
John CampeaNews ChatWell holy crap I didn't see this one coming! It's not totally unusual for studios to change release dates. It is a bit unusual to changed dates by MONTHS when only two months away from it's schedule...
X-Files 3?
John CampeaNews ChatI'm one of those guys that really didn't mind the first X-Files movie and was pretty excited about a second one. However... like many of you I thought the second one was total garbage. Almost as bad...
Wanna Come To A Screening Of “The Anniversary” Tomorrow Night?
John CampeaNews ChatHey there guys. Ok, as most of you know I just finished my first comedy feature length film called "The Anniversary". I've been planning on having a Cast/Crew/Friends/Family screening in Hollywood a...
Random Avatar Thoughts
John CampeaNews ChatI've heard good things about the footage from "Avatar" that many of my friends saw at Comic Con this year. I DID NOT SEE THAT FOOTAGE, so please keep that in mind as you read my random thoughts. Ava...
Karl Urban Joins Preist
John CampeaNews ChatI really dig Karl Urban. Like most people, I never really knew anything about him until his role in the "Lord of the Rings" films in which he just blew me away with his subtle power on screen. It lo...
Bryan Singer Could Return To X-Men
John CampeaNews ChatIt was with a heavy heart that I first heard Bryan Singer wasn't going to come back to direct X-Men 3. He had single handedly resurrected the Comic Book movie genre with his first 2 X-Men efforts (I ...
The Things I Didn’t Like About “District 9″
John CampeaNews ChatOk, before you read anything PLEASE READ THIS PART: I enjoyed "District 9" very much. I even went to see it in theaters twice. It's a very solid movie that was fun, had some of the best visual effe...
Nolan drops The Prisoner
RodneyNews ChatThis is how rumours start. All over the net today I have seen a plethora of articles stating this fact. Christopher Nolan has dropped out of The Prisoner. What most people speculate or wonder is ...
First Look at Spielberg’s Untitled Alien Invasion TV Pilot
RodneyNews ChatSteven Spielberg has not directed anything on TV since 1985, so when I was on a set piece of his as of yet Untitled TV series he is producing for TNT I was rightfully skeptical when the security guard...
The Wonder Twins on Smallville?
RodneyNews ChatRumours have it that this ninth season of Smallville is its last, and while some say this is planned, there is speculation they won't cancel unless they have to. However, I think moving it to Friday ...
Peter Jackson to Direct Third Hobbit Film?
RodneyNews ChatNo one could be more excited about The Hobbit than me. But when I heard this rumour this morning I instinctively called bullshit. Worst Previews shares this: "I can tell you this, Peter Jackson is...
New Halloween 2 Trailer Online
RodneyNews ChatRob Zombie's Halloween got a fair amount of mixed reviews. Either you liked it or you really didn't. I imagine the same goes for the sequel. Check out the leaked Trailer. Are you on boar...
Red Velvet goes Direct To DVD on Demand
RodneyNews ChatThis looks like it might have a little something that strays from the stereotypes of direct to dvd horror, but it caught my eye because of the name on the poster. Henry Thomas, the kid from E.T. - no...
Peter Berg Talks Hancock 2
RodneyNews ChatI really liked most of Hancock, right up until it got wierd. I think a lot of people felt the same way as the movie fell apart in critics hands despite remaining profitable. But Peter Berg was quo...
Do you Wanna Date my Avatar?
RodneyNews ChatFelicia Day is a pioneer of the new media. Her comedy webseries that parodies the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games is a hit, and as it entered its second season it earned sponsorship b...
James Vanderbilt to write Spider-Man 5 and 6
RodneyNews ChatThe original scribe for Spider-Man 4 - James Vanderbilt, might have been replaced but the studio hasn't forgotten about him and want him to come back to write Spider-Man 5 and 6. ComingSoon repor...
Could Bill Chott be Three Stooges’ Curly
RodneyNews ChatWith all the speculation of casting of the Farrelly Brothers Three Stooges after Jim Carrey dropped out of the project. But the rumour mill is turning and it seems that the Farrelly's are already ta...
New Brewsters Millions Adaptation Coming
RodneyNews ChatI recall the days when Richard Pryor was comedy gold. One of my favourite films he did was Brewster's Millions. Well today I discovered that a new writing team has been tapped in re-making the film....
Will Ferrell replaces Robert Downey Jr in OoberMind
RodneyNews ChatLooks like Robert Downey Jr is being replaced as the lead voice actor in Dreamwork's answer to the Incredibles. In that void will be Will Ferrell instead. /Film describes the film as: The superhe...
The Final Destination to add Shaking Seats to 3D in Select Theaters
RodneyNews ChatThe Final Desination will not only throw aside title format by adding THE at the front instead of a 4 at the end, it will be upping the stakes of immersive movie viewing adding "a fourth dimension" co...
Forgotten Fridays - My Cousin Vinny
RodneyNews Chat, ReviewsThanks for checking out our Forgotten Fridays feature. This is a feature to review some older films that maybe you have forgotten about or maybe never got around to seeing that we just want to share....
Quick Thoughts On District 9
John CampeaNews ChatOk, I finally saw District 9 last night. I'll get around to my full review and video review tomorrow, but for now here are my quick thoughts: 1) This is a VERY good movie 2) This is not the masterpi...
Looks Like Kate Beckinsale Is Coming Back For “Underworld” 4, 5 and 6
John CampeaNews ChatAlthough the Underworld movies have never made a fortune at the box office, you have to keep in mind that they've been very profitable due to the fact that they've managed to always produce them for a...
Superman Rights Get Chopped Up
John CampeaNews ChatHoly crap... as someone who worked in law for a number of years, I can tell you that sometimes it works in really strange ways. And this one is VERY strange... but probably correct. The family of Su...
Pitt Says “Moneyball” Could Still Happen
John CampeaNews ChatThe story of the almost film, Moneyball, has been a rocky one. The film adaptation of the Billy Beane that outlines how on a limited budget he kept the Oakland A's competitive an in contention so man...
Bryan Singer Bringing Back Battlestar Galactica
John CampeaNews ChatI can't put into words how much I loved the new Battlestar Galactica. The first two seasons I maintain are the best two seasons of television the small screen has ever known. Piggy backing on the su...
George Clooney Not The Next Jack Ryan
John CampeaNews ChatTo date, 3 actors have portrayed the Tom Clancy character Jack Ryan. Alec Baldwin in “The Hunt For Red October”. Harrison Ford in both “Clear and Present Danger” and “Patriot Games”, and m...
Me and Orson Welles Trailer Online
RodneyNews ChatThere is a new film out there that Roger Ebert says is "possibly the best movie about the theatre I've ever seen" That film will be hitting the Toronto International Film Festival next month and today...
Death Race Prequel in the Works
RodneyNews ChatDeath Race was a deep heartfelt drama filled with story and introspective social commentary. Mostly about using a car to bridge that gap between competitive sports and criminal homicide. And it is...
Microsoft Holding Back Halo For Now
RodneyNews ChatJust a couple of days ago we talked about how Speilberg was spearheading an offer to get the Halo movie back on. But now we hear that Microsoft is just not interested. Well not yet anyways. Co...
DC talks Two Green Arrow Films
RodneyNews ChatDC is planning on ramping up their film franchises based on their comic books, and one of the projects on their radar has been Green Arrow. In fact, it appears that TWO Green Arrow projects were being...
Full Astroboy Trailer Online
RodneyNews ChatAstroboy is a slice of nostalgia for me as I used to watch the show as a kid (never could figure out the "I said something wrong in my report" quiz at the end) and I am a big fan of Imagi Studio after...
Video Blog: Response To G.I. Joe Director’s Stupid Claim That Critics Hate All Popular And Successful Movies
John CampeaNews ChatG.I. Joe director just did one of the most moronic interviews I've read in a long time. In it he cries and whines about people who don't like his movie and makes the claim that movie critics hate all...
Kickass Trailer Online
RodneyNews ChatKickass looked like a neat comic book, but I never read it. Now I really want to track it down because this bootlegged version of the trailer has me sold. You wanted a Rated R comic book movie? ...
G.I. Joe 2 Heads for Development
RodneyNews ChatThe ball is already rolling on G.I. Joe 2. Cobra has risen, and its time to find out if this really was just half the battle. Fused Film says: Paramount’s vice chairman Rob Moore confirmed tha...
14 Seconds of the New Moon Trailer Online
RodneyNews ChatThe Twihards will get to see the trailer for Twilight Saga's New Moon this coming weekend in front of Bandslam (they need something to lure people to buy a ticket I guess) but just because we now how ...
Captain America WWII Period Piece and Abomination Signs for Three Films
RodneyNews ChatI keep repeating how impressed I am with how Marvel is slowly simmering their franchises together to make the impossible film. It was long said you couldn't do an X-Men film because there was too man...
Video Blog: Dispelling Some Myths About Film Critics
John CampeaNews ChatOk first of all I don't like the title of this video blog that I came up with... but it's generally descriptive of what I'm going for. I wanted to talk a bit today about our perception of film critic...
Forgotten Fridays: John Hughes Tribute
RodneyNews ChatLast week's Forgotten Friday was going to be a John Hughes Film, but I couldn't decide which one. So what I decided was to hit up all my favourites. So to break tradition... and the day. I give you...
